Subject: Re: DUMMY_NOPS
To: David Maxwell <david@fundy.ca>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/22/1997 00:01:26
David Maxwell writes:
> > Changing the sense is probably reasonable, but defaulting it to commented
> > out means that GENERIC/INSTALL kernels won't work on those motherboards.
> 
> Perhaps it's time to split out a GENERIC/INSTALL Kernel which would be much
> like the one we have now, perhaps with more of the options which cause
> incompatibilities but provide new features (as space allows). And make a
> separate BASIC/INSTALL kernel to distribute with a set of options which
> don't cause problems for older systems. (mcd and wd come to mind?)

Doing the R.E. on all this stuff is so hard already that I don't even
want to contemplate this.

Perry